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the colgate news the week vol 28 no 1 hamilton new york september 6 1991 personnel changes highlight new academic year by mary b pasciak and michelle l warren the summer months brought tremendous change to the university's admin istration key members of the administrative staff in cluding bob holcomb and marge loop retired before the beginning of the aca demic year and bill kessler has already announed plans for his upcoming retirement in addition m lee pelton and carole locke-endy have made career moves to other universities any living institution changes over time said president neil grabois it would be unusual to expect enormous smoothness with the rate at which admin istrators come and go in an august 27 memo to the colgate community tho mas tucker announced pel ton's appointment as dean of students at dartmouth col lege in the same memo tucker who has replaced pelton in the interim position of acting dean of the college also announced locke-endy's departure locke-endy will serve as director of community ser vice and special projects at st mary's college in mary land the mean residence time in senior admin istrative appointments is lower than it used to be in higher education explainer bruce selleck who was recently named permanent dean of the faculty and provost people in these positions are subject to a lot more stress than they used to be there are now many in ecology house move to fiji annex postponed to fall 1992 by cort fellows it appears members of ecology house will have to wait for at least another year before taking up residency in what is now the empty fiji annex as a result of cost overruns in the planned re novation of the site residents will continue to live with members of the newly-formed asia house at 84 broad street formerly known as bolton house bolton resi dents now live in the 1934 house the original plan was for residents of ecology house to live at the 84 broad street location until january of 1992 when their new house was to be ready two weeks into the fall semester there are no signs of construction at fiji according to college house resident advisor kris ta pilot 92 a donor had agreed last year to contribute 650,000 for the restoration as plans for the house were drawn up the colgate ad ministration continued to welcome input from students concerning its design before long the estimated cost of the project had ballooned to around 1 million the do nor said pilot initially reacted by completely with drawing his support negotiations are cur rently underway between colgate's office of develop ment and the donor the university hopes to have the new house ready by fall of 1992 meanwhile residents of ecology house are trying to rework their plans said pilot by deciding which aspects of the plans can be eliminated or adjusted in order to bring the cost back down to the 650,000 mark we need to cut a few more corners said ecology house resident advisor john marrin a senior he added that although the current negotiations have been mov ing slowly the overall process had been fair and democratic marrin said he was pleased that members of the house had all been able to contribute the program is inev itably going to benefit from the move marrin said we just have to sort of grin and bear it while admitting to a certain amount of frustration at the delays marrin re mained optimistic that the move would eventually be possible we'd like to think we're patient he said paul lehman director of university housing could not provide many more details but confirmed that the donor has balked at the price tag of the renovation he added that negotiations were ongoing between the colgate development office and the donor who is a professional contractor marrin noted that thus far the relationship between the two groups currently sharing the house at 84 broad street has been excellent asia and ecology house residents run a complete food co-op and he said the groups plan to present joint programming in the coming months ecology hot-e restart will not be able to move until at lea next fall pho to by elizabeth cantu spring party infractions du placed on probation : kmberlywolf the university has placed the greek-letter or ganization delta upsilon du on social probation for three semesters following an investigation into infrac tions that occurred during the spring 1991 term flo rence mitchell dean of stu dents said the sanctions will be lifted in december of 1992 the action was taken in response to a number of vio lations almost all of which occurred spring party week end april 24-26,1991 mitchell said one of the infractions was a registered event from that weekend which was completely mismanaged she said individuals in at tendance at the party called in both andrea cunning ham director of fraternity and sorority relations and university security mitchell said she explained that the party was closed imme diately for irresponsible hosting a second incident which took place the same weekend was an unregistered event during which the univer sity's alcohol policy was violated in several respects faculty members discuss soviet shake-up by erin r read what lies ahead for the soviet union though the presidential forum august 29 did not have any definitive answers it did offer members of the audience a variety of facts and opinions president neil grabois panel featured michael haines professor of econ omics kira stevens assist ant professor of history and leonid chekin assistant professor of russian while haines and stevens present ed ideas based largely on theory and study chekin a native of moscow offered a more personal view turning his attention to the failed coup of august 19 chekin said that the most notable feature of the at tempted takeover was that it was incredibly disorganized the coup was not however a surprise while in moscow in 1989 chekin said that he discussed various scenarios of coups with friends lib eral politics and economic reforms had begun to threat en ... the old power system itself he said the process of both economic and polit ical disintegration began at that time as a possible coup con tinued to be predicted and discussed from 1989 onward the soviet union entered a period of what chekin called dynamic stagnation the president of the ussr mik hail s gorbachev tried to regroup the power structure and invented new and high er titles for himself said chekin there was no way to stop the destabilizing pro haw ni i-tt 1 afaftâ€”la fue photo continued on page 5 continued on page 6 continued on page 4

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the colgate news the week vol 28 no 1 hamilton new york september 6 1991 personnel changes highlight new academic year by mary b pasciak and michelle l warren the summer months brought tremendous change to the university's admin istration key members of the administrative staff in cluding bob holcomb and marge loop retired before the beginning of the aca demic year and bill kessler has already announed plans for his upcoming retirement in addition m lee pelton and carole locke-endy have made career moves to other universities any living institution changes over time said president neil grabois it would be unusual to expect enormous smoothness with the rate at which admin istrators come and go in an august 27 memo to the colgate community tho mas tucker announced pel ton's appointment as dean of students at dartmouth col lege in the same memo tucker who has replaced pelton in the interim position of acting dean of the college also announced locke-endy's departure locke-endy will serve as director of community ser vice and special projects at st mary's college in mary land the mean residence time in senior admin istrative appointments is lower than it used to be in higher education explainer bruce selleck who was recently named permanent dean of the faculty and provost people in these positions are subject to a lot more stress than they used to be there are now many in ecology house move to fiji annex postponed to fall 1992 by cort fellows it appears members of ecology house will have to wait for at least another year before taking up residency in what is now the empty fiji annex as a result of cost overruns in the planned re novation of the site residents will continue to live with members of the newly-formed asia house at 84 broad street formerly known as bolton house bolton resi dents now live in the 1934 house the original plan was for residents of ecology house to live at the 84 broad street location until january of 1992 when their new house was to be ready two weeks into the fall semester there are no signs of construction at fiji according to college house resident advisor kris ta pilot 92 a donor had agreed last year to contribute 650,000 for the restoration as plans for the house were drawn up the colgate ad ministration continued to welcome input from students concerning its design before long the estimated cost of the project had ballooned to around 1 million the do nor said pilot initially reacted by completely with drawing his support negotiations are cur rently underway between colgate's office of develop ment and the donor the university hopes to have the new house ready by fall of 1992 meanwhile residents of ecology house are trying to rework their plans said pilot by deciding which aspects of the plans can be eliminated or adjusted in order to bring the cost back down to the 650,000 mark we need to cut a few more corners said ecology house resident advisor john marrin a senior he added that although the current negotiations have been mov ing slowly the overall process had been fair and democratic marrin said he was pleased that members of the house had all been able to contribute the program is inev itably going to benefit from the move marrin said we just have to sort of grin and bear it while admitting to a certain amount of frustration at the delays marrin re mained optimistic that the move would eventually be possible we'd like to think we're patient he said paul lehman director of university housing could not provide many more details but confirmed that the donor has balked at the price tag of the renovation he added that negotiations were ongoing between the colgate development office and the donor who is a professional contractor marrin noted that thus far the relationship between the two groups currently sharing the house at 84 broad street has been excellent asia and ecology house residents run a complete food co-op and he said the groups plan to present joint programming in the coming months ecology hot-e restart will not be able to move until at lea next fall pho to by elizabeth cantu spring party infractions du placed on probation : kmberlywolf the university has placed the greek-letter or ganization delta upsilon du on social probation for three semesters following an investigation into infrac tions that occurred during the spring 1991 term flo rence mitchell dean of stu dents said the sanctions will be lifted in december of 1992 the action was taken in response to a number of vio lations almost all of which occurred spring party week end april 24-26,1991 mitchell said one of the infractions was a registered event from that weekend which was completely mismanaged she said individuals in at tendance at the party called in both andrea cunning ham director of fraternity and sorority relations and university security mitchell said she explained that the party was closed imme diately for irresponsible hosting a second incident which took place the same weekend was an unregistered event during which the univer sity's alcohol policy was violated in several respects faculty members discuss soviet shake-up by erin r read what lies ahead for the soviet union though the presidential forum august 29 did not have any definitive answers it did offer members of the audience a variety of facts and opinions president neil grabois panel featured michael haines professor of econ omics kira stevens assist ant professor of history and leonid chekin assistant professor of russian while haines and stevens present ed ideas based largely on theory and study chekin a native of moscow offered a more personal view turning his attention to the failed coup of august 19 chekin said that the most notable feature of the at tempted takeover was that it was incredibly disorganized the coup was not however a surprise while in moscow in 1989 chekin said that he discussed various scenarios of coups with friends lib eral politics and economic reforms had begun to threat en ... the old power system itself he said the process of both economic and polit ical disintegration began at that time as a possible coup con tinued to be predicted and discussed from 1989 onward the soviet union entered a period of what chekin called dynamic stagnation the president of the ussr mik hail s gorbachev tried to regroup the power structure and invented new and high er titles for himself said chekin there was no way to stop the destabilizing pro haw ni i-tt 1 afaftâ€”la fue photo continued on page 5 continued on page 6 continued on page 4